A Fish A Day...

I don't think I've ever had sardines before. I may have played sardines when I was a kid but I don't recall trying the fish. Tonight I had sardines.

I found them crunchier than I expected. And then K told me I didn't have to eat the bones, especially the spines. That helped.

A pleasant taste. Just not what I expected.

I also have herring to try later in the week. It's new fish week.

Friday Fish

It's a rare Friday night when I'm not in the pub and an even rarer one when I'm not even having a drink. But since I have a half-marathon in two days time I'm not drinking until then. Which is annoying.

It has at least meant that I've been able to cook a proper Friday tea. I popped in to M&S at lunchtime and bought some tasty monkfish. It was good. Very expensive though - £11.99 for two people's worth. That could make it possibly the most expensive single item of food I've ever bought, excluding restaurants. I must have been having a moment of madness else it could have been the last remnants of last night's booze playing a final trick on me.

Speaking of last night, last night I discovered a new drink: Guinness Red. Apparently it's been around for a while but I've only just spotted it. If you don't know it, it can be described very easily: Guinness for girls.

Pointless Lemon Rapping

We visited Knaresborough today. Lunch was in a bar called So! in the town centre. Pretty decent food, and very friendly and helpful staff. We did make a small complaint but they gave us a couple of free beers in return, so that's a result as far as I'm concerned.

A big question I had though is when you have fish and chips:



... what really is the point of wrapping the half of lemon in paper? I realise it'll maybe catch the pips should one decide to squeeze the lemon, but even so, we're grown ups who can easily avoid pip-incidents. If one falls on to the dinner we can move it to the side of the plate. etc. etc.

Blah.